[gentoo-user] System is too big

2005-02-22 Thread Jose Gonzalez Gomez
Hi there, I'm getting the following when trying to do a genkernel --udev --gensplash=gentoo all: Root device is (3, 4) Boot sector 512 bytes. Setup is 4896 bytes. System is 7985 kB System is too big. Try using modules. make[1]: *** [arch/x86_64/boot/bzImage] Error 1 make: *** [bzImage] Error 2

Re: [gentoo-user] System is too big

2005-02-22 Thread Jose Gonzalez Gomez
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 15:46:17 +0100, Bastian Balthazar Bux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jose Gonzalez Gomez ha scritto: Hi there, I'm getting the following when trying to do a genkernel --udev --gensplash=gentoo all: Root device is (3, 4) Boot sector 512 bytes. Setup is 4896 bytes.

Re: [gentoo-user] System is too big

2005-02-22 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Jose Gonzalez Gomez ha scritto: On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 15:46:17 +0100, Bastian Balthazar Bux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jose Gonzalez Gomez ha scritto: Hi there, I'm getting the following when trying to do a genkernel --udev --gensplash=gentoo all: Root device is (3, 4) Boot sector 512 bytes. Setup is

Re: [gentoo-user] System is too big

2005-02-22 Thread Jose Gonzalez Gomez
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 17:25:08 +0100, Bastian Balthazar Bux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jose Gonzalez Gomez ha scritto: On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 15:46:17 +0100, Bastian Balthazar Bux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jose Gonzalez Gomez ha scritto: Hi there, I'm getting the following when trying to do

Re: [gentoo-user] System is too big

2005-02-22 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Jose Gonzalez Gomez ha scritto: On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 17:25:08 +0100, Bastian Balthazar Bux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jose Gonzalez Gomez ha scritto: On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 15:46:17 +0100, Bastian Balthazar Bux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jose Gonzalez Gomez ha scritto: Hi there, I'm getting the

Re: [gentoo-user] System is too big

2005-02-22 Thread Chris Cox
Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: System is 7365 kB System is too big. Try using modules. make[1]: *** [arch/x86_64/boot/bzImage] Error 1 make: *** [bzImage] Error 2 * Gentoo Linux Genkernel; Version 3.1.0j * ERROR: Failed to compile the bzImage target... Why don't you just compile it yourself rather

Re: [gentoo-user] System is too big

2005-02-22 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Tuesday 22 February 2005 21:45, Chris Cox wrote: Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: System is 7365 kB System is too big. Try using modules. make[1]: *** [arch/x86_64/boot/bzImage] Error 1 make: *** [bzImage] Error 2 * Gentoo Linux Genkernel; Version 3.1.0j * ERROR: Failed to compile

Re: [gentoo-user] System is too big

2005-02-22 Thread Chris Cox
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Tuesday 22 February 2005 21:45, Chris Cox wrote: Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: System is 7365 kB System is too big. Try using modules. make[1]: *** [arch/x86_64/boot/bzImage] Error 1 make: *** [bzImage] Error 2 * Gentoo Linux Genkernel; Version 3.1.0j * ERROR:

Re: [gentoo-user] System is too big

2005-02-22 Thread Eric S. Johansson
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: pssst. Do not tell them, that compiling 2.6 with make all modules_install install is better than genkernel ;) Why use the 'normal' way, if you can do it with a complex script, that needs a big overhead and makes your boot longer? unfortunately, it seems that the only

Re: [gentoo-user] System is too big

2005-02-22 Thread Leif B. Kristensen
On Tuesday 22 February 2005 22:39, Chris Cox wrote: Well for me I tried that Genkernel way a couple of times and thought it was way too complex and took too long. That is, when it worked which most of the time it never did. Seems it wants to compile everything including the kitchen sink when

Re: [gentoo-user] System is too big

2005-02-22 Thread Chris Cox
Eric S. Johansson wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: pssst. Do not tell them, that compiling 2.6 with make all modules_install install is better than genkernel ;) Why use the 'normal' way, if you can do it with a complex script, that needs a big overhead and makes your boot longer?

Re: [gentoo-user] System is too big

2005-02-22 Thread Holly Bostick
Eric S. Johansson wrote: unfortunately, it seems that the only way to get lvm2 and udev to work at the same time is with genkernel. personally, I would love to find an alternative but my query on how to has only had one answer which is to give up. ---eric I've never used genkernel, and

Re: [gentoo-user] System is too big

2005-02-22 Thread Eric S. Johansson
Holly Bostick wrote: I've never used genkernel, and I had lvm2 and udev working perfectly well together-- do you have the root partition on LVM or something (I didn't)? no. Even so, that's related to initrd generation, which is not the exclusive province of genkernel. I'm confused. so am I

Re: [gentoo-user] System is too big

2005-02-22 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Eric S. Johansson ha scritto: Holly Bostick wrote: I've never used genkernel, and I had lvm2 and udev working perfectly well together-- do you have the root partition on LVM or something (I didn't)? no. Even so, that's related to initrd generation, which is not the exclusive province of

Re: [gentoo-user] System is too big

2005-02-22 Thread Holly Bostick
Eric S. Johansson wrote: Holly Bostick wrote: I've never used genkernel, and I had lvm2 and udev working perfectly well together-- do you have the root partition on LVM or something (I didn't)? no. Even so, that's related to initrd generation, which is not the exclusive province of genkernel.

Re: [gentoo-user] System is too big

2005-02-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 17:04:38 -0500, Eric S. Johansson wrote: unfortunately, it seems that the only way to get lvm2 and udev to work at the same time is with genkernel. personally, I would love to find an alternative but my query on how to has only had one answer which is to LVM, software

Re: [gentoo-user] System is too big

2005-02-22 Thread Eric S. Johansson
Holly Bostick wrote: [disclaimer] OK, I have no idea what Xen is, only the hottest little virtual machine system around. http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/index.html and I have no idea what documentation you are reading that says you need an initrd[/disclaimer],

Re: [gentoo-user] System is too big

2005-02-22 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Hi On Tuesday 22 February 2005 22:39, Chris Cox wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Well for me I tried that Genkernel way a couple of times and thought it was way too complex and took too long. That is, when it worked which most of the time it never did. Seems it wants to compile

Re: [gentoo-user] System is too big

2005-02-22 Thread Holly Bostick
Eric S. Johansson wrote: Holly Bostick wrote: and I have no idea what documentation you are reading that says you need an initrd[/disclaimer], http://webpages.charter.net/decibelshelp/LinuxHelp_UDEVPrimer.html http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml have been the main documents I've been

Re: [gentoo-user] System is too big

2005-02-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 00:35:59 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: As far as I know, as long as you have device-mapper loaded before udev starts, it should find them fine (i.e., udev is not in and of itself an issue, to the best of my knowledge). udev starts before modules are loaded, so

Re: [gentoo-user] System is too big

2005-02-22 Thread Eric S. Johansson
Holly Bostick wrote: As far as I know, as long as you have device-mapper loaded before udev starts, it should find them fine (i.e., udev is not in and of itself an issue, to the best of my knowledge). How are you loading device-mapper? CONFIG_BLK_DEV_DM=y rebuilt the kernel with lvm and

Re: [gentoo-user] System is too big

2005-02-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 19:04:52 -0500, Eric S. Johansson wrote: rebuilt the kernel with lvm and device-mapper built-in. I reboot, I get the same thing I have every time. /etc/dm* doesn't exist which makes sense because my raid set /dev/md0 seems to have vanished. Are the partitions comprising

Re: [gentoo-user] System is too big

2005-02-22 Thread Eric S. Johansson
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 19:04:52 -0500, Eric S. Johansson wrote: rebuilt the kernel with lvm and device-mapper built-in. I reboot, I get the same thing I have every time. /etc/dm* doesn't exist which makes sense because my raid set /dev/md0 seems to have vanished. Are the

Re: [gentoo-user] System is too big

2005-02-22 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Maybe all that complicated junk is if you want to put root on an LVM. I've only done one LVM2 so far on FC2/3 and it worked fine but I left /boot and /root off the LVM - it wasn't part of it. I' have a system that I'm going to install Gentoo on and use LVM2 and udev so Holly's experience is

Re: [gentoo-user] System is too big

2005-02-22 Thread W.Kenworthy
LVM the gentoo way works fine: I highly recommend for any system needing multiple partitions http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/lvm2.xml After a disk failure (one of a two disk raid zero stripe), I added the new disk as LVM2, copied the files that I could salvage over and then did an emerge -e world

Re: [gentoo-user] System is too big

2005-02-22 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 22 February 2005 04:19 pm, Chris Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry I can't help you on the lvm2 problem. Never used that filesystem. I assume that its another filesystem , like reiserfs or ext3? Or maybe its something complex like RAID? LVM is at the same level of abstraction

Re: [gentoo-user] System is too big

2005-02-22 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 22 February 2005 04:54 pm, Bastian Balthazar Bux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you don't use lvm for / /usr and similar you don't need an initrd at all. Built it in the kernel or as a module and let the gentoo init scripts manage it. IME, LVM /usr does not require an initrd. --